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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Names 2012 Draper, Gordon Prize Winners
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
From Schneier on Security
The Continued Militarization of the U.S. Police
The state of Texas gets an armed PT boat. I guess armed drones weren't enough for them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Second Economy: a Neural Model
Aspen Root Systems and a neural system for a second economy. By W Brian Arthur, who we worked with at the Santa Fe Institute and applied in the enterprise. Delaine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms That Changed the Future
Being a long time practitioner of the practice of developing and applying algorithms, I found this book to be very interesting: Nine Algorithms that Changed. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turbo Tax Goes Mobile
Intuit reports that their flagship Turbo Tax package, which I have used for years, is now available on iPhone, iPad and Android. The package can be used to both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Odor Destroying Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: An interesting idea. Deoderants for the home applied by autonomous agents? Over complicating the idea, but worth understanding. Perhaps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Brand and Corporate Reputation
A conversation reminded me again of the company Neputation, who's technical people I had the chance to talk to recently. Impressive methods being used to address...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Air Force Social Radar
The idea of air force social radar sounds much like neuromarketing efforts underway today, but some more seriousness involved. Reading minds all the way down...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Surgical Robots, Sensor Wristbands Advancing Health, Energy
Over the last year, we’ve described many opportunities at the intersection of computing and healthcare as well as computing and sustainability — and there are a...
From Schneier on Security
Using False Alarms to Disable Security
I wrote about this technique in Beyond Fear: Beginning Sunday evening, the robbers intentionally set off the gallery's alarm system several times without entering...
From Wild WebMink
SOPA, PIPA and Open Source
SOPA and PIPA, the poorly conceived draft legislation currently being considered in the USA, sparked a worldwide protest yesterday. I think they would also be bad...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Educational Portal
The Beta of the Wolfram Educational Portal has been released. Great effort. " ... We are happy to announce the launch of the free Beta version of the Wolfram...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two New Imagine Cup Challenges for 2012
The Imagine Cup just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Today two more challenges were announced via the Imagine Cup blog (Microsoft Announces Windows Metro Style...
From Wild WebMink
OSI Opposes SOPA and PIPA
I was pleased to be able to send OSI’s sign-on to the civil society letter protesting the bad laws being considered by the US legislature at present. You can read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cool BI Innovations
In TDWI: Some expected examples that are worth reviewing. I think much more can be said here. Some of the innovations will take considerable evolving to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Past and Future
Some notes on AI, Past and Future, in the ACM. Another favorite topic. Most recently I have seen some of the IBM Watson work, which nicely brings expertise based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Gaming
I continue to be intrigued by the use of game dynamics as part of user engagement. Did a number of related projects in the enterprise: Here some further thoughts...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM